How to pronounce grave in British English
“grave” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to grave the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “grave” in: all accents · American English (841 clips)
“grave” in real sentences — British speakers
580 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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The consequences are grave.
The Scottish Parliament
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this time of grave difficulty.
UK Parliament
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be regarded as a grave matter.
The Scottish Parliament
Words that sound like “grave”
Words one sound away from grave — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “grave”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of grave. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.